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Candidates of the 1931 Tasmanian state election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 1, 2024
Entity authorityQ17002010 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1931 Tasmanian state election was held on 9 May 1931.

Retiring Members

No MHAs retired at this election.

House of Assembly

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one MHA are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are indicated by an asterisk (*).

Bass

Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats.

Darwin

Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats, although Labor MHA Fergus Medwin was running as an independent.

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“Candidates of the 1931 Tasmanian state election” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Candidates, Tasmanian and state can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Candidates of the 1931 Tasmanian state election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.